SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, POWERTRACK APM - PV PERFORMANCE
Company: Stem
Location: Boston
Posted on: October 3, 2024
Job Description:
Stem provides clean energy solutions and services designed to
maximize the economic, environmental, and resiliency value of
energy assets and portfolios. Stem's leading AI-driven enterprise
software platform, Athena, enables organizations to deploy and
unlock value from clean energy assets at scale. Powerful
applications, including AlsoEnergy's PowerTrack, simplify and
optimize asset management and connect an ecosystem of owners,
developers, assets, and markets. Stem also offers integrated
partner solutions to help improve returns across energy projects,
including storage, solar, and EV fleet charging. For more
information, visitwww.stem.com.
Stem's culture embodies diversity & inclusion beyond the
traditional facets of gender, ethnicity, age, disabilities, and
sexual orientation to include experience, personality,
communication, workstyles, and more. At our core, Stem is at the
momentous intersection of clean energy and software technology
where diverse ideas, experiences, and professional skills converge
to make the inclusive culture we have today. Together, we are
turning old school thoughts about software and energy into
progressive, collaborative, and innovative solutions. By joining
our team, you will be collaborating with data scientists, energy
experts, skilled salespeople, thought-leading executives and more
from a range of backgrounds. This intersection of ideas, beliefs,
and skills is what makes us unique enough to lead the world's
largest network of digitally connected energy storage systems. What
we are looking for: As the Product Manager for PowerTrack APM PV
Performance, you will join Stem's product management team and be
responsible for driving the strategy and development of Stem's
cutting-edge operations management software solutions for solar,
battery energy storage, and hybrid solar+storage systems. This role
will directly contribute to the strategy and execution of Stem's
PowerTrack APM product roadmap. You will:
- Own and extend the software product capabilities, both
customer-facing and internal to Stem, related to (1) PV performance
modeling (2) PV performance analytics (3) VEE of operational
time-series data (4) advanced technical analytics using AI and
data-science-driven methodologies.
- Work with various functional stakeholders and subject matter
experts to develop product requirements and roadmaps, collaborate
with the Stem software development team on prioritization and
product delivery, and support other teams on go-to-market strategy
and sales enablement. Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to act as primary contributor to
the product roadmap for product and feature delivery, internally
developed or via partnerships, related to PowerTrack APM's
technical PV performance product areas including the PowerTrack APM
PV monitoring, diagnostic tools, performance loss categorizations,
VEE, PV advanced analytics, PV expected production modeling, PV
forecasting, and custom KPIs calculations.
- Understand, research, and follow technical trends in the energy
industry, particularly around PV performance engineering, PV
modeling best-practices, PV model accuracy, PV forecasting, and
operational analytics tools.
- Work closely with the Stem data science and software
development teams to assess and address technical risks and
delivery risks to ensure timely delivery and a high standard of
excellence for products and features.
- Participate in agile processes and ceremonies within the
software development team, and follow high standards for
automation, quality and transparency/observability.
- Own and prioritize technical product backlog in development of
PowerTrack APM software offerings, supporting products that delight
our customers and enable more efficient operation of clean energy
assets.
- Collaborate with peers working on other areas of PowerTrack APM
to ensure alignment, compatibility and a cohesive user experience.
- Work with solution managers and division leaders to develop
strategies, pricing, and cost models for your specific product
- Work with product marketing to develop customer-facing
collateral to project Stem's leadership and differentiation in
solutions geared towards the operation of solar, storage, and
hybrid energy assets
- Conduct competitive market assessments and capability
assessments regularly.
- Explore partnerships and procurement options to complement
internal development activities for high impact, build vs. partner
vs. buy decisions.
- Provide internal training and present to customers on Stem's
unique monitoring and managing software solutions
- Answer incoming questions about the product and its
capabilities and assist other teams in responding to RFIs (Request
for Information)
- Analyze key performance indicators, report on these indicators
at a regular cadence to the Manager of Product Management, Asset
Performance Management
- Define success criteria for testing and product acceptance to
enable high-velocity and high-quality feature delivery
- Facilitate the creation and maintenance of high-quality product
documentation.
- Foster a strong technical culture characterized by high-quality
implementations, effective organizational communication,
decisiveness and speed, constructive conflict resolution, and a
can-do mentality.
- Establish effective and collaborative cross-functional working
relationships with peers, developers, and operations teams.
- Other duties as assigned. Requirements:
- 3+ years' experience in a performance engineering or technical
asset management role optimizing operational performance of
renewable energy assets, especially battery energy storage systems
(BESS) and utility-scale PV systems
- 8+ years' experience working as a product manager or
collaborating with software development teams especially in
workflow-driven, data-intensive applications
- Electric power industry domain experience with demonstrated
understanding of renewable energy asset performance modeling,
benchmarking, and optimization during operations
- Familiarity with PVsyst, PVlib, SolarFarmer, ASTM 2848, and/or
other PV performance models
- Familiarity with weather-resource assessment, performance loss
models to identify soiling and shading, and performance benchmarks
such as capacity testing, KPIs, and availability calculations
- Prior work with cross-functional product development teams,
including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and
operations. Experience working in an Agile engineering
organization.
- Experience defining business models and go-to-market strategies
- Experience participating in and leading commercial discussions
with customers' leadership teams
- Extraordinary communication skills, and able to present complex
technical topics to non-technical audiences.
- Experience in full life cycle agile engineering practices
ranging from concept, design, development, and QA to continuous
release and maintenance.
- Empathy: You are driven to uncover customer needs and pain
points and channel those insights into user-centric product
development.
- Intellectually curious: You're interested in understanding and
experimenting with new cutting-edge technologies. You want to dive
deep into technical matters and can hold your own in discussions
with engineers.
- Decisiveness: You gather the data and make informed, critical
decisions quickly.
- An entrepreneurial spirit with an ability to operate
successfully in a high-growth company environment and grow your
products.
- A positive, energetic, can-do attitude: You're driven to
succeed, achievement-oriented, and self-motivated with high
integrity, principles, and ethics.
- Team Player: You understand that solving large problems
requires collaboration and can develop productive relationships
with your peers to effectively influence the team.
- Accountability: An eagerness to take ownership of your product
and drive results for the company. Job Location Boulder, CO Remote
US or Canada Salary Range $150,250.00 - $210,500.00 Stem, Inc. is
an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the
workplace and does not discriminate against any employee or
applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, pregnancy,
religion, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, sexual
orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability,
genetic information, military status, protected veteran status or
any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local
laws.
Keywords: Stem, Providence , SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER, POWERTRACK APM - PV PERFORMANCE, Executive , Boston, Rhode Island
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